Sentences with phrase «into beatific»

Lemieux's deadpan expression dissolves into a beatific smile when he's told of all the kvetching.

Lancelot works miracles; Galahad, Bors, and Percivale see the Holy Grail and enter into the beatific vision; mortal sin besmirches souls, and its stain is removed by confession, absolution, and penance.

Not exact matches

Since the distinction between natural and supernatural orders tends to dissolve if the desire for the beatific vision is built into every natural judgment, the normativity of Scriptural statements and magisterial pronouncements is undermined.

He does not invite us into communion with himself, nor is there any possibility of seeing him as he really is in the Beatific Vision.

And his inner ring of aides appears to have formed a small cult around him, insisting he enjoys an ineffable mystic bond with «the people,» and that all who glimpse his pure beatific aura must fall into instantaneous ecstasies of awe and reverence, and speak of him afterward in only the most cringing and slavish terms.

Unable to pay their mortgage or find new work, they leave the big city and stumble quite by accident into a commune in Georgia, led by a beatific ladies» man (Justin Theroux in Jesus hair, and killing it).

Steven Spielberg's film locates the beatific in its (literally) outsized star, Mark Rylance, but lapses into the banal when its eponymous Big Friendly Giant...

No matter, as Wolvie breaks into Stryker's lab after discovering that Stryker is actually an anti-mutie bigot and frees a bunch of little mutant kids promptly adopted by a beatific Professor X (Patrick Stewart), providing a segue into Bryan Singer's X-Men though not explaining why no one at Professor X's school in that film seems to recognize their savior from this one.

And when my father, the Nigger Whisperer - that beatific smile splashed across his face - eased his way past the police barricade, put a tweed - jacketed arm around the broken - down drug dealer, and spoke some whispered profundity into his ear, Kilo G blinked blankly like a stage - show volunteer struck dumb by an Indian casino hypnotist, then calmly handed over his gun and the keys to his heart.